Around The Piers Across California: Fear No Pier 2.0
Ray Meltvedt led the inaugural Fear No Pier stage swim along the California coast in 2013. 2021 will see version 2.0 with a 38-pier stage swim.
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Why People Swim Alone No Matter What The Risks
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are several iconic images that alway come to mind when we think of open water swimming. The first image is the mass open water swim when hundreds of swimmers race together along the seashore or in a lake. Another common image is of a channel swimmer greasing up before a marathon swim. Another is
Swimmers Explain What To Do During A Shark Encounter
Photo shows flesh wounds of Steven Robles after a shark encounter along Manhattan Beach in Southern California. We asked, "If a shark is seen during a training swim by a pod of swimmers, what do ocean swimmers normally do? What should they do? What is the best advice? If a pod of swimmers are training together along the coast in close proximity to one
Quartet Share Their Experiences With General Public
Photo courtesy of Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register, California. It is rare that open water swimmers get publicity in a front-page article of a major American newspaper, but Julian Rusinek (53), Ray Meltvedt (54), Scott Zornig (54), and Eric Peters (57) pulled it off in an article entitled 'Bad fish or bad PR? Shark attacks are rare, local experts say]
Generosity From Julian, Swimming In Santa Barbara
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association announced its new Julian Rusinek Scholarship. "Times are tough, unemployment is high and marathon swimming is an expensive sport," explains Scott Zornig, president. "Julian Rusinek has generously funded a scholarship which provides financial assistance to
High Fives All Around For DRIVEN
Julian Rusinek, a channel swimmer from California, talks about the documentary film DRIVEN: "DRIVEN penetrated directly into my strongest childhood memories. I wasn't watching a movie about swimming, I was being told a story. Rarely do we see a movie that is larger than the screen itself. DRIVEN by far was one of those movies that I became absorbed in its
Live Bait And Aged Chum In The Open Water
Lynn Kubasek created a video of 2 relay teams: Live Bait (Julian Rusinek, Theo Schmeeckle, Peter Hayden, Natalie Merrow, Kelley Schall, and Carol Hayden) and Aged Chum (Scott Zornig, Michael Sullivan, Lisa Nordholm, Kevin Seres, Rob Dumouchel, and Lynn Kubasek) as they both swam from Santa Cruz Island to Silverstrand Beach on the California mainland in 12
The Inter-island Adventure Of Julian Rusinek
As created by Lynn Kubasek.
Julian Rusinek Finishes 2-Year Journey Between 2 Islands
Julian Rusinek fulfilled his 2-year goal today by becoming the first person to swim from San Miguel Island to Santa Rosa Island, two of the California Channel Islands. 2 hours 25 minutes after pushing off San Miguel Island, he reached Santa Rosa to the barks of hundreds of elephant seals and sea lions. Marine life, abundant and visible at the start and
The Night Before And The Wind Is Howling
Julian Rusinek will be departing the California mainland on the Blue Fin late tonight from Ventura for his unprecedented one-way and two-way attempt between the islands of San Miguel and Santa Rosa in the California Channel Islands. While the one-way distance is only 3.6 miles, it is potentially an extraordinarily wild and totally gnarly swim in a part of